Cheese bandage



July 9, 1935; SPENCE CHEESE BANDAGE Filed March 29, 1932 gmenl oa 5 YEON SPENCE Patented July 9, 1935 2 007 410 UNITED STATES PATENT v OFFICE j I CHEESE BANDAGE v Byron: Spence, Milwaukee, Wis., assignor to Chr. I e .j Hansens Laboratory, 1110., Little Falls, N. Y., a corporation of New Fork 7 Application March 29, 1932, Serial No. 601,850

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This invention relates to cheese bandages and Figure his a modified form which does not has for its object a particular method .of cutting haveto be turned and which can be shipped in the cheese cloth in order. to secure allof the neatpackages; advantages ,of the usual cheese bandage and, Figure 5 is aform which, altho causing a slight- 5 while reducing the total amount of cloth required, .ly greater unevenness of package has distinct 5 to, improve, materially the appearance of the advantages and willnot appreciably mark the cheese. 2 cheese. i

A further object of the present invention is .Figure'fi ,is an enlarged section showing the the provision of a cheese bandage which .does stitching used in Figure 4.

not require the turning of the bandage inside Figure 7 is an enlarged view showing the stitch- 10 ,out at the place of use. ing used in Figure 5.

In theusual making of sewed cheese band- Figure 8 is a further modification;

ages thecloth is cut or torn to the right width Practically all of the cheeses made in this and these out or torn strips are then cut .at country of the American or Cheddar type are right-angles into rectangles'each approximately put up, in cylindrical shapes which vary both in 15 two inches longer than the circumference of the diameter and in height, depending entirely upon cheese or, what. is the same thing, the inside cirthe size of the hoop used. These cylindrical cumference of the metal hoop-or mold in which shapes are made by pressing the cheese in metal the cheese-is pressed. This usual method requires hoops or molds which latter are lined with'cheese that thebandage shall be. sewed on a line which cloth which is sewed in such a fashion as to *20 isat an angle ,to the two'alined .cut edges. in conform rather precisely to the inside shape of accordance with the present invention, however, the hoop, such pieces of cheese cloth being techthe line of. stitching is exactlyparallel to the nically known in the art as bandages. cut edge andfthe saving in cloth, while quite To facilitate the pressing of the cheese in the trivial fora single bandage, amounts to a conpress the hoops are tapered so that the bottom of 25 siderable sum in quantity. one hoop will fit into the top of thenext hoop.

Furthermore by the present invention I have The hoops of full curd may be placed either verprovidedabandage which can be shipped as sewed tically or horizontally in the cheese press, this and which can be used in the cheese factory particular invention having nothing to do with without the usual turning of the bandage inside the step of pressing the cheese but merely with :30

out, this being required in all earlier forms bethe making of the bandage. cause the bandagesican be shipped very neatly In accordance with my invention instead of when they are sewed provided they are not cutting the strips at right angles as is the case turned inside out at the bandage factory. While in the ordinary method, I make the cuts I!) as a machine could readily be designed to turn the shown in Figure 1 at an angle to the selvedge ll 35 bandages inside out at the bandage factory, this or the cut or torn edge [2, the angle being purwould make awkward packages because the bandposely exaggerated in order to emphasize the inage if turned inside out will not lie fiat. By the vention. In Figure 2 a single cut piece is shown, present method, however, no turning inside out the dotted line I being the line of fold, this beof the bandage is necessary and the amount of ing centrally of the piece which is a trapezoid. 40 the excess material is only half what it would In Figure 3 the piece of cheese cloth has been be if the ordinary bandage were turned inside shown folded and the dotted line I5 is the line out and hence while the bandages will not lie as of stitching which it will be noted is exactly parfiat as in previous practice they will lie sulfiallel to the diagonally cut edge H]. For convenciently fiat for shipment in very neat condition. ience in illustration the small end of the band- 15 In the drawing:- age is uppermost in Figures 2 and 3 but it will Figure 1 is a plan view of a strip of cloth sevbe understood by those familiar with the art ered in any manner as by cutting or tearing to that as the bandage appears inside of the cheese the proper width and illustrating the line of hoop when the cheese is upright, the longer'side second cut. of the bandage is uppermost. 50

Figure 2 is a single piece ready to be folded and The saving in cloth over the normal method of made into a bandage. making cheese bandages runs from two to five Figure 3 shows a complete bandage which is percent, depending upon the width of the bandage very satisfactory except that it must be turned and this saving when figured in terms of rolls of before it can be used. cheese cloth is quite material bearing in mind 55 that there is absolutely no disadvantage, in fact the finished bandage is somewhat neater and obviously just as strong as the older type. It is neater because the less the edge of the bandage overlaps beyond the line of stitching, the better will be the appearance of the finished cheese. Cutting on a diagonal reduces the amount of cloth beyond the stitching, and therefore the amount of cloth folded back which makes an impression against the surface of the cheese.

The new method materially improves the appearance of the cheese over that of cheese on which ordinary bandage is used, for the old method leaves a big uneven overlapping piece to make an irregular impression on the surface of the cheese, while the present method leaves two small regular overlaps, the edges of which are exactly parallel to the line of stitching.

While the bandage of Figure 3 is a remarkably better bandage than the prior art, it is essential .that the bandage be turned inside out prior to .use. To avoid this disadvantage I have pro vided the modified bandages of Figures 4 and 5. In Figure 4 one ofthe cut edges I is on the outside of the bandage and the other out edge is on the inside of the bandage as seen in Figure 6 and I close the seam by a double row of stitches. Where the line of stitches is made by a machine which uses a chain on the bottom, I prefer that the single line of stitching I6 shall be on the outside of the bandage and the chain stitching I"! shall be on the inside of the bandage. The two stitching lines are made at the same time by a well known double stitching machine, the overlap of the material being roughly one-half inch and the distance apart of the lines of stitching being one-quarter inch more or less. It will readily be seen that a bandage such as shown in Figure 4 will relieve the cheese makers of the duty of turning each bandage wrong side out at the time it is put on the bandage ring and secured in the hoop, this action being necessary in order that the overlap or flap where the two ends of the cloth are sewed together shall come next to the cheese, and shall not be on the outside and in the way where it might get torn, mussed, or ripped off during the handling of the cheese.

In Figures and 7 I have shown a further modification wherein the outside raw edge is turned under to form a folded edge l8. In this modification the two cut edges of the bandage, as formed in Figure 1, are brought together so as to form a circle which, of course, is actually a cone, and with these two ends in place the twin seams are made as in Figure 7 differing from Figure 6 largely in that while the inside out edge Ill lies fiat against the other end of the strip on the inside the cut edge Ill is turned in. between the two ends and between the two lines of stitching so that on the outside instead of having a raw edge I have the folded edge 18. In the devices of both Figures 4 and 5 the two ends will lie flat against one another so that there is practically no visible seam and no appreciable end flap projecting at any point and there is no noticeable seam to mark the cheese at any point and this is obtained in addition to the big advantage of having the bandage ready to put right into the hoop without any extra work of turning it wrong side out. Figure 8 shows a still further modification in which both of the raw edges are turned under so that two folded edges l8 are formed.

What I claim is:

1. The method of making cheese bandages which consists in cutting a strip of proper width by diagonal cuts alternately left and right of a line normal to either top or bottom edge of the strip, folding the cut segments in half with their cut edges alined and closing the bandage by a line of stitching parallel to the diagonal cut.

2. A cheese bandage consisting of a trapezoid of bandage material with the two sloping cut edges lying parallel to one another so that the bandage when open may form a frustum of a cone open at both ends, said strip being closed by plural thread stitching, such stitching extending parallel to the two sloping edges and positioned so that the two raw edges of the material are both enclosed whereby no raw edge is exposed either inside or outside of the bandage.

BYRON SPENCE. 

